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Reply #106 –
Nice Igor, I like it... it makes muuuuch easier to understand. But maybe the colours could be improved :P

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Reply #107 –
Quote from: Zeno – on
But maybe the colours could be improved :P

As I've said, it's just an idea. Colors were poorly chosen.

And the icons came from here: http://www.iconfinder.net/. I loved this site (Idea from Vilvoh)

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Reply #108 –
cool!! now I hope people get the idea. For me it's clear, but people usually hate mathematics... ::)

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Reply #109 –
Quote from: vilvoh – on
It's clear, 69 means 68 and you owe me one...there's no sexual connotations anywhere... ::)

Er! what do you mean 'sexual' is that something to do with the species? And, dont you mean69 is realy 70 and you owe me one?
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

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Reply #110 –
I like both changes, The first (already live) makes it easier to find the object of interest, and the second makes it graphically very clear :) Perhaps a small text for paksets saying "one or more" would help?

As to zip versus/plus installer, having it as a zip emphasises that it does not need installation to people who get ill even hearing "installer". It's a kind of added bonus, perhaps attracting the skilled ones... I certainly prefer software that can be unzipped and run.

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Reply #111 –
As there is also a mekobj for PowerPC for macs on the nightly page, maybe this needs change too.

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Reply #113 –
How about removing incompatible paksets from PakSets list.
They don't work with v102 anymore.

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Reply #116 –
Another little secret.

I was thinking of creating a blog for whole Simutrans Community, where any member in charge of project or activity could post.

http://www.simutrans.com/index_news.html (it's just the index page with a link "News" that leads you to an existing blog)

We have some blogs out there, but nothing official, and we have enough people who have posted news frequently.

Quote from: prissi – on
As there is also a makeobj for PowerPC for macs on the nightly page, maybe this needs change too.

But I didn't find makeobj for PowerPC at SourceForge page. I think a stable version of MakeObj could be hosted there, then I link it to simutrans.com.

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Reply #117 –
I like the 'blog idea!
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Reply #118 –
Would be something like Simutrans Develoment blog, but a community level? Perhas there's a service like that at SourceForge..

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Reply #119 –
Could set up a Wordpress blog - that allows you to have multiple authors posting entries...

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Reply #120 –
The point is to have it integrated with the site seamlessly (design-wise), I presume?

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Reply #121 –
I don't have conact with blogs yet, but I would like a system like a news reader where every heads of the simutrans projects could post their news!
But it should be included in the homepage style!
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Reply #122 –
Well, using the current design requires finding a tool that can be templated - and WordPress can be... *shrug*

There's other solutions, for sure...

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Reply #123 –
Good things are always more than welcome.

My idea came from two things:

1) "Someone" said we need to create a feeling of a community (I can't say who is someone because it was mentioned "privately" :-[);

2) And:

Quote from: freegamer – on
6.  No news?  People love news.  There should be at least an RSS of the download forum or something similar.  

The FreeCol website is an example of a great front page.  Everything is obvious, easy to p**** at a glance.

The blog would work like BlenderNation does (http://www.blendernation.com/ at http://www.blender.org/). Not all members would post, but a restrict group would; visitor could post comments.

Can we discuss about it here or elsewhere?

EDIT:

Quote from: Michael 'Cruzer' – on
but I would like a system like a news reader where every heads of the simutrans projects could post their news!

You got my idea. ;D The blog wouldn't be only for Simutrans Developers, but for any member is charge of an activity.

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Reply #124 –
The RSS feeds are a great idea, but that means we need to update the website very often, so I don't know if that would be very comfortable. I don't know if you can create a RSS channel with having a website, at Feedburner i.e...Anyway, I already suggested having a twitter account related with Simutrans news. It's extremly dinamic, easy to update and only allows you 140 characters, so I guess it wouldn't be annoying to write short news each day. On the other hand, a blog it's also dinamic but needs a little bit more maintenance work, thus as you prefer, I will support and if possible I'll take part in both solutions.

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Reply #125 –
Hmhm... maybe robofish could help with something? There was something Isaac had on the previous forum, "Devotee news", it was crude but worked... That's all we could need, ****uming the authors can write html (come on, is it harder than forum bbcode?).

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Reply #126 –
I don't think we need to post everyday. I want just a place where any project leader, developer, devotee, moderator and admin can post what they think is important to post. If there's nothing to post, post nothing.

I prefer a system where we can post short texts and it's possible to attach a photo or video *and* easier for a visitor of Simutrans.com to find what happens in the community. Something friendly "catchable" and more visible for visitors (sample http://www.blendernation.com/2009/07/01/blender-25-overview-video/).

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Reply #127 –
Quote from: IgorTekton – on
1) "Someone" said we need to create a feeling of a community (I can't say who is someone because it was mentioned "privately" :-[);

I think several people share this idea. I'm just bad lately at contributing to the community feeling.

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Reply #129 –
I thought that we already had a feeling of community? Not that we can't make it even better, of course.
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Reply #130 –
I think the "make it better" was what we meant. For me, it will mean to try to spend more time here, and try to get involved better. I can't say though, if I'll have the time and energy to do that, but I think it'd be the right thing to do.

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Reply #131 –
Quote from: Hajo – on
I think the "make it better" was what we meant. For me, it will mean to try to spend more time here, and try to get involved better. I can't say though, if I'll have the time and energy to do that, but I think it'd be the right thing to do.

I'd love to see you around more -- which is not to say I think you're withholding yourself from the community. I've been glad to see you around; but of course I'd love to see you around even more, is what I mean to say. ;-)

Conversely, don't spend more time than you have. It's a lesson I've begun to learn as I've tried to balance work, school, and the things I want to do... :)

Also, on the topic at hand -- I'm all for trying to come up with new ideas to make things *better*. Taht doesn't mean things are *bad* at all - but always striving for improvement is a Good Thing in my book :D

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Reply #132 –
Quote from: Hajo – on
I think the "make it better" was what we meant.

Yes. What I'm focusing is better communication among community members *and* between community and visitors of Simutrans.com, is to attract more new people and so.

I got to go. Later I treat more about.

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Reply #133 –
I created a beta test site, so I can test and receive feedbacks before replacing the current one:

http://www.simutrans.com/newsite/index.html

(WARNING: DO NOT advertise this address above, because I can remove this site without notice)

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Reply #134 –
Not sure if the team email still works. ANd I would make the sourceforge project page a real link on the about page.

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Reply #135 –
Quote from: prissi – on
Not sure if the team email still works.

Hmm... I found that e-mail in Simutrans splash screen, when you start Simutrans up. Anyway, it's interesting we have an e-mail (example: http://www.freecol.org/contact.html)

Quote from: prissi – on
ANd I would make the sourceforge project page a real link on the about page.

Currently that text is there just for placeholder; it's far from final version. I think of transferring it to Development page (http://www.simutrans.com/newsite/development.htm).